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"[T]he first general naval history written in the English language."

Josiah Burchett.A Complete History of the Most
Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts of Time
to the Conclusions of the Last War with France... In
Five Books. London: Printed by W. B. for J. Walthoe, et al.,
1720.

"This volume is particularly important in the literature of naval
history, not only as a narrative of naval operations in the Nine
Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, but as the first
general naval history written in the English language" (Oxford
DNB).

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